Intellectual disability : ethics, dehumanization, and a new moral community / Heather E. Keith and Kenneth D. Keith.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex : J. Wiley, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781118586440
- 1118586441
- 9781118586471
- 1118586476
- 9781118606926
- 1118606922
- 9781118606957
- 1118606957
- 0470674326
- 9780470674321
- 9781299313835
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- People with mental disabilities -- Cross-cultural studies
- People with mental disabilities -- Social conditions
- Mental illness -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Mental illness -- Cross-cultural studies
- Ethnopsychology -- Cross-cultural studies
- Difference (Psychology) -- Cross-cultural studies
- Group identity -- Cross-cultural studies
- Social isolation -- Cross-cultural studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities
- Difference (Psychology)
- Ethnopsychology
- Group identity
- Mental illness
- Mental illness -- Moral and ethical aspects
- People with mental disabilities
- People with mental disabilities -- Social conditions
- Social isolation
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- HV3004
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Why study disability? -- Part I. The roots of dehumanization. Intellectual disability: history and evolution of definitions -- The social construction of Purgatory: ideas and institutions -- A failure of intelligence -- The consequences of reason: moral philosophy and intelligence -- Part II. Out of the darkness. Defining the person: The moral and social consequences of philosophies of selfhood -- Alternative views of moral engagement: relationality and rationality -- Culture and intellectual disability -- Part III. Disability ethics for a new age. Quality of life and perception of self -- Application and best practices: rights, education, and ethics -- Visions of the future.
"Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New Moral Community presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the roots and evolution of the dehumanization of people with intellectual disabilities. This book: Examines the roots of disability ethics from a psychological, philosophical, and educational perspective ; Presents a coherent, sustained moral perspective in examining the historical dehumanization of people with diminished cognitive abilities ; Includes a series of narratives and case descriptions to illustrate arguments ; Reveals the importance of an interdisciplinary understanding of the social construction of intellectual disability."--Publisher's website.
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